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Zacatecas Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into AI Deepfakes Targeting 400 Students

Parents demand expulsions, sanctions, forensic review.

Overview

  • A third-year student allegedly used AI tools to strip and sexualize classmates’ images, later posting them on Instagram and a Google site labeled with names, grades, and groups.
  • Families say complaints to staff were ignored and that officials confined the accused with relatives while accounts were deleted and devices wiped, erasing potential evidence.
  • Social profiles hosting the material have been taken down, though parents warn the catalog may already have circulated or been monetized.
  • Classes were halted and major roads in the capital were blocked as students and parents protested and called for administrative and criminal action against school officials.
  • The state prosecutor’s office opened an investigation into crimes against sexual privacy and offered psychological and legal support to victims, while the Education Secretariat has not directly engaged protesters.